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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) Profile picture
@bestoneTX
Oct 17, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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There are massive swaths of the Texas historical experience we would have no idea existed if Russell Lee hadn't spent so much time here.
Some of my favorite Russell Lee pictures from Corpus Christi, taken in 1949. . . .

Children at Lamar School playground.

@BriscoeCenter
Some of my favorite Russell Lee pictures from Corpus Christi, taken in 1949. . . .

Man studying for a night school class in a barbershop window. This one sent me to the 1949 city directory to find Memo's place.

@BriscoeCenter
Some of my favorite Russell Lee pictures from Corpus Christi, taken in 1949. . . .

Corpus Christi Hooverville, 1949. This is in a part of town called North Beach, near where the Texas State Aquarium is now.

@BriscoeCenter
Some of my favorite Russell Lee pictures from Corpus Christi, taken in 1949. . . .

A student in the automobile body repair and painting class at Del Mar College (my school!).

@BriscoeCenter
Whoops. This one's 1939, not 1949. #editbutton
Some of my favorite Russell Lee pictures from Corpus Christi . . .

Downtown Corpus Christi, seawall under construction, 1940.

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) Profile picture
Oct 17, 2021
I'm free now to report that I was a historical consultant on this case.

I haven’t posted about this before because I was waiting for the process to play out. But now that the judge has ruled, I'd like to describe my experience.

nytimes.com/2021/10/13/us/…
It’s rare, perhaps, that a historian’s expertise can be put to such good use as this. I study a niche area, a subfield of a subfield, and I teach at a midsized community college.

I never expected to be asked to consult on something so important.
I’m a historian of the Texas Jewish community. My book, “The Chosen Folks,” is the first narrative history of this community. I've also edited a Texas-based historical memoir and published a ton of articles and reviews in the field.

utpress.utexas.edu/books/stocho
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Feb 25, 2020
REMINDER, Houston: I’ll be speaking at Rice University on Monday about the Galveston Immigration Movement. It’s free and open to the public, and details are below. I hope some of you might be there!

But what is the Galveston Movement? Well, keep reading.

events.rice.edu/#!view/event/e…
Between 1907 and 1914, more than 9,000 Russian-Jewish immigrants arrived in the United States through the Port of Galveston, Texas, bypassing the more familiar but badly overcrowded Jewish neighborhoods in New York.

These were Yiddish-speakers literally "fresh off the boat."
The Galveston Movement was an organized effort by national (i.e., New York) Jewish leaders to divert the growing stream of Jewish immigration from Russia away from New York and into the “American hinterland”— their endearing term for the rest of the country.
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